Lesson Plan

School: Şcoala Gimnazială Pârcovaci

Teacher: Grancea Gabariela
Date: 18th November 2019
Form: 4th grade
Time: 50 min
Level of study: Elementary
Module: 2
Unit: 2
Lesson: A butterfly!
Textbook: Limba modernă – engleză, sem. I, Editura Astro

Type of lesson: Introducing new material

Teaching methods:
 the audio-lingual approach
 the audio-visual approach
 the communicative approach
 the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
 conversation
 repetition
 explanation
 exercise
 singing and miming
 dialogues, listen and do activities

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Class organisation: (individual/pair/group work)
Materials: blackboard, pictures, posters, worksheets, textbook, projector, CD
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian.
Aims:
• to revise and consolidate the main words and structures learnt so far;
 to listen, repeat and learn the correct pronunciation of the new words referring the animals;
 to encourage students to learn the English language through dialogues, games, conversation;
 to develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;
 to stimulate students’ imagination.
Objectives:
a) cognitive:
 to reinforce vocabulary
 to learn and improve word pronunciation
 to communicate efficiently using their language
 to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
 to stimulate students’ imagination
 to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
 to use English while playing
 to have fun

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Stages of the lesson Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Interaction Skill Time Purpose

I. Warm-up Teacher greets the Students answer lockstep speaking 2’ - to prepare the
students and asks for students for the
absentees; lesson
Teacher encourages the
students to greet her
back.
II. Checking Teacher revises Students T-Ss listening 3’ - to check students’
the previous vocabulary from mime the action understanding of the
knowledge Fairyland 2A Unit 4. previous lesson and
Teacher shows the correct possible
students pictures and mistakes
says: Look! I can play
the piano.
Teacher keeps changing
the actions to make the
activity fun for the
students
III. Introducing
new material Teacher asks the
a) Pre-teaching students to find out the Students listen T-Ss listening 5’ - to stimulate
topic of the lesson. students’ imagination
She invites them to play Students decode the - to create interest in
the Secret code game in topic of the lesson the topic of the
order to discover the (Animals) animals
title (Annex 1) speaking
writing
Teacher announces the
objectives
Today we are going to: Students listen
 learn new words
about the

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 animals
 learn to
recognize and
pronounce them
correctly. lockstep
 learn about: what
can the animals - to reinforce
do? 1’ vocabulary
Teacher writes on the - to learn and
blackboard the title of Students write the writing improve word
the lesson and asks the title of the lesson on pronunciation
students to do the same their notebooks
in their notebooks.
T-Ss
b) Activity 1 Teacher points to the Students look at the
Presentation animals, one at a time, pictures, the spelling listening - to match the picture
presents them and of the words and they speaking with the new taught
pronounces the new repeat the new words words
vocabulary loud and after their teacher
clear asking the students
to repeat after her. lockstep
Then she points to the The students repeat 10’
animals in random order after her. writing
and name them. - to exercise writing

Teacher asks the Students recognize

students to write the them and write the - to check and
new words in their correct words in their consolidate
notebooks. notebooks pronunciation and
understanding the
T-Ss Listening meaning of the words
Teacher invites the Students look at the speaking 2’
c) Activity 2 students to play the picture and guess the

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Practice guessing game. The animal
teacher thinks of an T-Ss
animal and says, e.g. It’s - to communicate
blue. It can fly. efficiently using their
the animal, e.g. bird. language
Suggested cues: It’s
blue. It can fly./It’s blue.
It can swim./It’s red. It speaking
can climb./It’s red. It
can run./It’s green. It T-Ss reading
can jump. - to reinforce
vocabulary
d) Activity 3 Teacher asks the
Practice students to match the speaking 5’
words to the animals in Students look and
their notebook. match the words to
Teacher asks the the animals in their
students to look at the notebook.
picture (page 6 in the
textbook), and then she The students point to speaking
explains the activity. and name the animals
Teacher checks the
students’ answers. T-Ss - to recognize the
missing letters and to
e) Activity 4 Teacher prepares the find the new taught
(consolidation) students to listen and words
learn the song. She says
the lines and invites the
students to repeat after
her. listening
The little green frog The students listen, speaking 5’
goes (all clap) “la di da repeat after their T-Ss writing
di da teacher and then sing

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 (all clap) la di da di da the song and mime
(all clap) – la di da the actions
di da”
The little green frog
goes (all clap) “la di da
di da”
And it can jump and listening
swim! speaking
The little blue bird goes
(all clap) “la di da
di da
(all clap) la di da di da
(all clap) – la di da
di da”
The little blue bird goes
(all clap) “la di da
di da
la di da di da – la di da
di da”
And it can fly and sing!
Then she plays the
recording (the song from
the digital book)

Teacher gives the Students find the

f) Activity 5 students worksheets and stickers and put them 5’
(optional, if there is asks them to read the in the correct order
time) names of the animals
and find the stickers.
(Annex 2)

Teacher asks the Students look at the

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 students to look at the picture and identify 5’
Activity 6 picture from their the actions. Then they
Consolidation worksheet and put a tick point and say: An
or a cross near each of elephant can…, but it
the animals. (Annex 3) can’t…

IV. Feed-back Teacher invites the Students play the T-Ss listening 5’ - to end the lesson in
students to play a game. game Ss-Ss speaking a fun way;
She divides the class - to let students know
into four groups and how well they
gives a picture of an performed
animal to each group.
She explains that they
have to keep their
pictures secret, and one
of the students has to
mime the animal and the
others have to guess it.

V. Homework Teacher asks students to T-Ss

learn the new
vocabulary and the song

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